Talkin’ Miles: ’59, Trane & Carnegie Hall
“With the reissue of landmark jazz albums Kind of Blue and Time Out from 50 years ago, it’s hard not to feel a little nostalgic.” Has it been all downhill for jazz since 1959? J.D. Considine starts the conversation. Miles of John Coltrane — good spot to read about “original issues on which Coltrane plays [...]
All-Star Tribute To Miles Davis’ ‘Kind of Blue’ Highlights Playboy Jazz Festival This Weekend
Via The Signal: Saturday’s “Kind of Blue @50″ homage to trumpet legend Miles Davis’ 1959 “Kind of Blue” album by Jimmy Cobb’s So What Band makes a direct connection to that epochal album, the classic era it represents, and to Playboy itself. “The very first Playboy (magazine) interview was with Miles,” said Playboy founder Hugh [...]
Painting Miles Davis: Interview with Yuriy Shevchuk
(Artist Series, Volume 1) Yuriy Shevchuk’s artwork is wonderful; modern art so full of charm, sophistication and style blended with a delightful harmony of color. Among his excellent gallery of oil, watercolor and pastel artwork are numerous Miles Davis paintings (two posted above). There’s actually a large number of lovely, jazz-inspired paintings to enjoy, but [...]
Miles Davis / From The Archives
Although Stylus Magazine is no longer operating, much of their music and film content is still available online. Our latest Archives post goes back to a Stylus feature known as Seconds, a column that examined “those magic moments that arose when listening to a piece of music that strikes that special chord inside.” We jump [...]
Photographer Jim Marshall Launches New Website
From John Coltrane and Thelonious Monk to The Beatles, Bob Dylan and Jimi Hendrix, Jim Marshall has photographed many of the greatest musicians of our time. And he’s snapped some of the absolutely most essential photographs of Miles Davis. In conjunction with the team at Groovy Collectibles LLC, Marshall has launched MarshallPhoto.com, the official site for the [...]
Miles Davis / In Pictures
Christies / Lot Description / Miles Davis Preliminary artwork for an album cover, the black and white portrait photograph of Miles Davis by Jan Persson, showing Davis performing on stage in Berlin, 25 September, 1964, the photograph pasted onto board beneath a paper overlay annotated with various printers’ instructions and embellished with a smaller copy [...]
Miles Davis & Gil Evans (’59)
* Who is going to play Gil Evans in the Miles Davis Biopic?
Miles Davis & Prince In Concert
I’m a big fan of Prince. I think the guy is a musical genius. As a performer he is among the greats, right up there with James Brown. He also collaborated with Miles Davis here and there back in the ’80s. In honor of Prince’s birthday Sunday (June 7) the Honey Soul music blog has [...]
Understanding The Gaslight Anthem’s “Miles Davis & the Cool”
I admit to not knowing too much about the rock band The Gaslight Anthem. That they have a song called “Miles Davis & the Cool” is reason enough for me to at least investigate their affinity for the Prince of Darkness. I turn to an interview with IndyWeek (from April) to gain a bit of [...]
Miles Davis, Birdland & Venus Retrograde
Without getting too scientific I’ll defer quickly to Nick Dagan Best’s article from 2007 where he examines ‘…a historical parallel between the synodic cycle of Venus and the Sun relative to explosive moments in U.S. black-white race relations over a span of 160 years.’ As part of his research he touches on the infamous, 1959 [...]
